Intro

The top 11 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in North Africa and the Middle East that have invested in Late stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Media and Entertainment industry. Media and entertainment is a large sector that includes music, movies, theatre, dating and sex industry, gambling, event management, photofraphy, publishing, cirtual reality, and graphic design.

Amount of Late funding rounds is 18, which is 24.7% of the total amount of rounds in the Media and Entertainment industry in North Africa and the Middle East over the last 3 years.

Top 11 investors in North Africa and the Middle East that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Media and Entertainment industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among top VCs is Israel which hosts 7 funds. There are also funds from United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Egypt. The most common city is Tel Aviv which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from Dubai, Herzliya and Cairo. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Israel, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. For 3 funds in the sample, the country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide.
  • Industry Focus - The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in Gamification, Medical Service and Enterprise Software.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1990 and the newest one in 2017. In 1993 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2020 and 2018. 2019 and 2007 were less fruitful.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 - 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8, the maximum is 297. Average number of funding rounds is 70.5 while median is 27.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 27. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 56. Average amount of lead investments is 10.1 while median is 4.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.89 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 11.48 and the median is 12.49. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 - 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 6 - 7 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is 10 - 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 7.89 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 2.5 and median is 1.69. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.